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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here     Daily Independent Online.         * Monday, July 20, 2004. Security breach: Al-Mustapha to be court-martialled By Chris Agbambu Deputy Bureau Chief, Abuja Security sources have confirmed that Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to late Head of State Sani Abacha, is on top of the list of those to be tried for the national security breach that took place in March. Early this month, Chief of Army Staff Lt-Gen. Martin Luther Agwai told newsmen in Abuja that 10 army officers were investigated by the SIP over the breach, cleared and released. He linked the “prompt action” taken to investigate the plot as a sign of the commitment of the Armed Forces to the enthronement of democracy. Sources could not state the number of those detained awaiting court martial, but confirmed that some military officers and civilian are among them. However, apprehension may have enveloped the Armed Forces following the non-composition of the court martial to try those implicated. Informed military sources expressed worry on Monday in Abuja wondering why the government is yet to raise a court martial, five weeks after the Special Instigations Panel (SIP) submitted its report to Chief of Defence Staff General Alexander Ogumodia. The military is also said to be wondering if there was actually a security threat, but a source close to the SIP countered that there was indeed, “a coup de tat attempt in the pipeline before it was ripped in the bud”. The SIP had on June 16 submitted its report to Ogumodia who would have added his own remarks before he presented it to National Security Adviser General Aliyu Crusua for onward transmission to President Olusegun Obasanjo. The President was expected to direct Ogumodia to set up the court martial. The SIP source confirmed that there is “glaring evidence” against those implicated and that the team of military legal experts has compiled the charges. Said he: “I can emphatically tell you that some junior officers, in collaboration with some civilians, wanted to carry out something funny against the democratically elected government of President Obasanjo”.       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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